A HISTORY OF KENT Cyclica {continued) Psylliodes cuprea, Koch. On Crucifera-, poppies, etc. ; not rare — affinis, Payk. On Solanaceae ; common and widely distributed — marcida, 111. Sandy coasts ; on Cranibe and Cakile, etc.; rare. Sheerness — dulcamaras, Koch. Chalky places; on Solanum dulcamara ; local. Rochester district, Chatham^ Dartford, Darenth Wood, Westerham, Maidstone — chalcomera. 111. On thistles, etc.; local. Cohham Park, Chatham, IVhttstahle, Maidstone, Folkestone — picina. Marsh. Damp places ; on Lythrum salicaria, and also on Cir- sium; not common. Snodland, West Wlckham Cryptosomata Cassida murrasa, L. On Inula dysenterica (fleabane) and Mentha ; very local and scarce. Greenwich, Plaistow, Dover, Sandwich — fastuosa, Schall (vittata, F.). On Sene- cio jacobaea ; very rare. Chattenden, Greenwich — nebulosa, L. On low plants ; rare. Darenth Wood — vibex, F. On Centaurea, thistles, etc.; local. Darenth Wood, Birch Wood, Belvedere, Cobham Park, Chattenden, Chatham, Faversham, Whitstahle, Tonbridge — sanguinolenta, F. On thistles, Achillea millefolium and other low plants ; not common. Blue Bell Hill near Rochester, Chatham, Deal, Dover, Folkestone — vittata, Vill. (oblonga. 111.). On Sali- cornia and other salt marsh plants ; almost always found near the coast ; local, but widely distributed — nobilis, L. On low plants in chalky and sandy places; local and rather scarce, but very widely distributed — flaveola, Thunb. (obsoleta, 111.). On starwort and other low plants, also in moss, decaying seaweed, etc. ; common — equestris, F. Marshy places on Men- tha aquatica; not common. Snodland, Maidstone, Dover — viridis, F. On thistles; very common — hemisphasrica, Herbst. On Silene in- flata and other low plants, at roots of Reseda, etc.; rare and usually found singly. ^eendown Warren, Birch Wood, Lee, Deal, Folkestone Tenebrionid^ Blaps mucronata, Latr. In houses and cellars; generally distributed Tenebrionid^ {continued) Blaps similis, Latr. In cellars and outbuild- ings, also out of doors ; not common. Strood, Kingsgate on the seashore (T. Wood), Dover Crypticus quisquilius, L. Sandy places on the coast ; local. Sheerness, Dover, Deal, Sandwich Heliopathes gibbus, F. Sandy places on the coast ; locally common. Deal, Dover Opatrum sabulosum, Gyll. Sandy places on the coast ; locally common. Whitstable, Deal, Dover Microzoum tibiale, Redt. Mostly on the coast, but not always; locally com- mon. Deal, Dover Phaleria cadaverina, F. On the coast, under seaweed, at roots of grass, etc. ; local. Margate, Dover Heledona agaricola, F. In dry white boleti on oak trees ; very local. Cobham Park (sometimes very plenti- ful), Chatham, West Wickham Scaphidema aeneum, F. In old stumps, among damp dead sticks, etc. ; local, but not uncommon in several locali- ties Alphitophagus quadripustulatus, Steph. In great numbers in a granary at Strood Tenebrio molitor, L. In old flour in granaries ; common — obscurus, F. In old flour, etc. ; much rarer than the preceding. Strood, Sheerness, Whitstable, Dover Alphitobius diaperinus, Panz. In flour, etc. ; probably introduced ; not com- mon, ^eenborough (J. J. W.) — piceus, Ol. As the preceding ; rather common. Rainham, Dover, etc. Gnathocerus cornutus, F. In flour, bread, etc., a cosmopolitan species ; local. Dover,2ind probably widely distributed Tribolium ferrugineum, F. A cosmopoli- tan species occurring in flour, also under bark of trees. Rainham, Sheerness, Dover, St. Peter's {Isle of Thanet) and probably common Hypophloeus bicolor, Ol. Under bark of elms ; very local. Sydenham, Chat- ham, Charlton, Lee, in old elms near Chattenden, also in burrows of Sco- lytus destructor Latheticus oryzae, Wat. A cosmopolitan species. Lee Helops coeruleus, L. In decaying willows, old posts, etc. ; very local. Chat- ham, New Brompton, Darenth JVood, Greenwich, Belvedere, Gravesend, Sheerness, Dover 164
